Security. Cooperation. Governance.

Reviews / Votes

"This book makes the case that a border is not a uniform dividing line between sovereign states but a series of interlinked channels between distinct communities. It is a unique piece of scholarship that demonstrates how border policies related to security, immigration, and trade are tied to regional preferences, mediated by federal and binational policymakers." -- Laura Dawson, Executive Director of the Future Borders Coalition "This book presents a richly detailed picture of the border between the United States and Canada. It makes clear that we can have trade and security at the same time. Policymakers will want to refer to this book for evidence that if we approach the border in a smart way, if we dedicate adequate resources, and if we use technology creatively, the United States and Canada can stay safe, secure, and economically competitive." -- David Jacobson, Former United States Ambassador to Canada "I found Security. Cooperation. Governance. The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox to be exceptional in presenting a compelling view of the dynamic cross-border regional cooperation and collaboration that impacts border security, policy, and culture across the US-Canada border." -- Matt Morrison, Executive Director and CEO of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region "Taken together, the contributions to this volume offer an account of a specific form of international relations in which cooperation is not stymied by contradictory interests or uneven commitments, but by a tension inherent in a collaborative project. This volume serves as a thoroughly informative corrective to state-centric reflexes that might produce zero-sum thinking that both countries are interested in avoiding." -- H-Net, Daniel Troup "The book certainly succeeds in its aim of moving on by showing how the logic of realist international relations is transformed by the interaction of security, economic, and political concerns, but also by different conditions and institutions along a common border. It also provides a genuinely comparative analysis of a subject too often confined to single case studies." -- Publius Leuprecht and Hataley provide an important account of how international borders are influenced by the factors proper to each region. They show that borders should not be understood as monoliths but rather as organic entities developing in their specific context. * Carlos Daniel Gutierrez Mannix, Journal of Borderland Studies * "The argument that security, cooperation, and governance function at multiple levels and in diverse ways across the entirety of the border should spark some hope that the Canada-US relationship(s) will survive despite the problems ongoing between the federal governments. This is perhaps the greatest strength of this book--that the local context and the multiplicity of relationships that unite regions across the border have a long and deep history that can withstand an attempt by the current American administration to dismantle that relationship from above." * James M. Hundley, American Review of Canadian Studies * "It should surprise no one that Canada's regions have for some time been laboratories of creativity and problem solving, generating pragmatic soltions to seemingly intractable border challenges. Leuprecht, Hataley et al. systematically capture and illuminate those innovations for everyone interested in how border policy is developed and administered." * Roy Norton, Canadian Journal of Political Science *